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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fengming Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4055235 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease mostly involved with intestine with unknown etiology. Diagnosis, evaluation of severity, and prognosis are still present as challenges for physicians. An ideal biomarker with the characters such as simple, easy to perform, noninvasive or microinvasive, cheap, rapid, and reproducible is helpful for patients and clinicians. Currently biomarkers applied in clinic include CRP, ESR, pANCA, ASCA, and fecal calprotectin. However, they are far from i ...[more]